// Gogoyoko

choir of young believers perform Riot in an Århus rail yard

My friend Vincent Moon tipped me off to choir of young believers in the lead up
to SPOT as he had been shooting in Copenhagen before the Festival. He had
recently shot a dazzling performance by a female experimental choir Valby Vokal
Gruppe which features two of the members of choir of young believers. The band
had parked their tour bus by an abandoned rail yard and had acquainted themselves
with the Christiania-type community of squatters who are transforming the space.
They had spotted a slightly out of tune piano in their travels around the space and
suggested it as a good spot to shoot. We only had a brief time window so the group
took their positions and and went straight into Riot from their E.P. Burn The Flag.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Hreiðar Marinósson and mixed by Ben Allen.
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Mads Mouritz peforms Blik, bang bang in Århus

Mads Mouritz entertains the lunchtime crowd in the back garden at Anettes
Sandwich in Århus during the Spot Festival.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Hreiðar S. Marinósson and mixed by
Gylfi Blöndal.
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Høgni performs Burstin’ Bubble on LYNfabrikken’s roof deck in Århus

Faroese indie pop sensation Høgni kicked off the afternoon of shows at
LYNfabrikken performing tunes from his fêted new album Haré! Haré.
Joining him is Brandur Jacobsen, who also plays in the bluesy Crawling
Blue and Orka’s Jens L. Thomsen. Interestingly, Høgni and Jens were
the rhythm section for Clickhaze, with Høgni on drums, Jens on bass and
Eivör Pálsdóttir on vocals. Here’s Høgni and the boys running through
Burstin’ Bubble.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Hreiðar S. Marinósson and mixed by
Pétur Úlfur Einarsson.
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Taxi Taxi! perform Ripest Fruit in the Århus Musikhuset

The gogoyoko folks had been enjoying the debut E.P. by Stockholm’s Taxi
Taxi! for some time and were keen for me to shoot a performance by twin
sisters Miriam and Johanna Eriksson Berhan. The duo have the good fortune
to be on the stellar Rumraket label which is run by their manager, Efterklang’s
Rasmus Stolberg and he was happy to to have the band sing for us.

The only issue was finding a suitably quiet venue. With the wind whipping
around outside and the din of restless beer fueling festival goers inside it
was proving rather difficult until I decided to requisition an entire theater
for our use. As this was Friday and I was new to the venues I was unaware
that there were many smaller venues in the Musikhuset. I noticed that the
second largest theater was open with the spotlights on and Persian carpet
laid. Ready for showtime I thought, and using considerable enterprising
spirit I had a few burly Icelandic mates close and guard the entry doors
and had Miriam and Johanna set themselves up on the stage.

Just as we started shooting the stage crew began hauling a grand piano in
from backstage. From experience in these situations I realize that you just
have to own it and I politely informed them that Taxi Taxi! were checking the
acoustics before their afternoon show in the theater. They happily agreed to
come back in 10 minutes by which time we had shot our two videos. Here is
the first, Ripest Fruit.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Hreiðar Marinósson and mixed by Ben Allen.
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The Love Language soundcheck Lalita in Brooklyn’s Bell House

The Love Language rollick through their monstrously catchy single Lalita at The
Bell House in Brooklyn. The band has been getting a great deal of warranted
attention of late and their show in New York rounded out a month-long post-
SxSW tour with Headlights.

I’m pretty new to The Love Language. A friend blipped Lalita the day before this
video was shot during which time I’d probably listened to the track a few dozen
times. Great pop songs have that effect and this tune is one of the best I’ve heard
in years. When I saw the band were playing in my backyard the latent OCD kicked
in and I blagged the opportunity to shoot them run through one song at the end of
their soundcheck. Their singer, Stu McLamb (who incidentally recorded the entire
album himself in his folk’s living room and is as lovely as he sounds on record)
offered up Lalita as his song of choice for the session.

What you see here though is the band’s second run through of the song. The first
take miraculously came through the mixing desk as fuzzed out digital noise and by
the time we listened back to it the band had all but taken all their instruments
offstage. So props to The Love Language for having the humor to get back up there
and bang out an even better performance than their first run through.

The song is lifted from the band’s magnificent self-titled debut album on Bladen
County Records. Thanks to Geoff Sawyer and Matthew Brown at Bladen County
Records and The Bell Houses’ Jeff Stultz, William Crane and Abigail Deirdre Gullo
for their help in making this happen.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Jeff Stultz and mixed by Ben Allen.
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